Our Rain Gauge Overfloweth

The meteorologists in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have declared our local drought is gone! The lake where we in Collin County get our water, was 17 ft. below level last year and we were put on severe outdoor watering restrictions (once a week during your assigned day, no car washing, no emptying and filling swimming pools). Our beautiful thick front lawn really suffered last summer during the heat and with little water, we lost a lot of it. Our backyard shrubs looked very stressed also. This spring, however, Mother Nature gave our area a very wet, wonderful gift of rain, rain and more rain. Just during the month of May we've had 22 days of this wet weather and about 8-9" of good 'ole rain.

As you can see from the picture on the right, we check that rain gauge frequently after any kind of precipitation. The pic on the left, shows our backyard vegetation looking lush and green and the same for the front. I will never take our natural resources for granted and we both still try to conserve as much as possible. The City Council has voted to keep the restrictions in place and I'm glad. We had 1" of rain yesterday and because it was our evening to water, (we can water 2x a week now) several in our neighborhood were sprinkling their yards as we left to go out to supper. The ground was so saturated, the water was just running off into the street. I hope this good stuff continues at least another month before we really get into the dog days of summer. I also hope Florida has the same weather pattern lay on top of it awhile. I saw where they are really scorched and dried up there. Well, enough of conservation 101. Just remember to always smile and enjoy the good 'ole wet stuff falling from the heavens!